Cathy contacted us as an absentee landowner for her property in Elmira as she resides in Mississippi. The property has been in her family for over 100 years. She decided to use us as her Forest Manager so we developed a management plan that included a final harvest and commercial thinning that happened this Spring of '24. The road had been neglected so last summer we scheduled for the road to be brushed, graded, and re-rocked to prepare it for the Spring '24 job. We took care of everything for her during the process and kept her up to date with everything that was going on. In the final harvest area we will now burn the slash piles this fall, site prep spray the ground to control competing vegetation this fall, and replant the unit this Winter as part of the continued forest management. 

This stand of Douglas-firs was roughly 30 years old and had been machine-planted in extremely tight rows with limited spacing. Trees were suppressing each other, resulting in tree mortality and restricted tree growth. 

We recommended taking out every third row to open up the stand and to use as designated skid trails. By doing this it left two rows of trees between each skid trail so that we were able to reach from the skid trails and thin to the desired spacing. All trees were limbed and manufactured inside of the stand to leave a slash mat across the ground, preventing ground compaction and acting as fertilizer as they decayed. 

As a result, the trees are now free to grow again and all dead and defected trees were removed from the stand.

On this project, the landowner had roughly 25 acres of nice 70+ year old timber. Their plan was to take a 200 foot strip of trees off of two sides of the stand to provide more grazing areas for their cattle and also to remove some of the dangerous trees around their home. 

Century Forest Management did all of the state notifications and filings, marketed the logs to maximize the value for the landowner and then began the logging project. We began by hand cutting the trees around the two sides of the timber patch until we made it to the home area. Around the house we hand cut the trees and used the log loader machine to assist with pushing them over to ensure that the house was safe from felled trees. Once all the logging was done, we used a small dozer and the log loader to pile all the brush and prepare it for burning so the ground was clear of debris.



This clear-cut project was a 40 acre job that we did during the winter. Century Forest Management managed all of the required notifications and also marketed the timber. Since there was a substantial amount of timber, we scheduled times to meet with log buyers from each mill that was interested, in order to show the quality of wood and get the most value possible. We chose to harvest during the winter because the log prices are typically much higher during the winter and the job was set up well with rock roads. 

We began harvesting by using a feller buncher to cut the trees and lay them on the ground in piles. We then used a log loader machine to swing the piles near the road. Once they were near the road, a processer de-limbed and manufactured the logs into decks where they could be loaded out on log trucks. 

Once the job was completed we went back through the unit using the grapple on the log loader to pile brush for burning. 

In addition to the clear-cut area, there was also a small portion of the job that was around a house. The landowner wanted the trees cut and the stumps removed in order to reduce fire danger around the house, prevent a tree from blowing onto the house, and to extend the yard area. To do this we used a log loader to push the trees over in order to uproot them. We then used the processor to cut off the root ball and de-limb and manufacture the tree. Once all the trees and roots were cleared, we used a dozer to clear all debris and level the area to convert it into a yard.

This right-of-way logging project had several miles of road that needed to be built in order to access a timber patch for future logging. Century Forest Management used a feller buncher to cut all trees that needed to be removed to construct the road, and piled them outside of the road boundary. 

Once the trees were removed, a road construction contractor came in and constructed the road. With the road in place, we went back to process and sort all the trees into the new road and loaded them out.

This oak release project was funded by the Natural Resource Conservation Services, in order to promote Oregon White oak stands. Oak stands used to dominate the Willamette Valley but have been significantly reduced over the years by reforestation of conifer species. Oak trees play a key part in creating habitat and feed for wildlife. The goal of the project was to go through the stand and cut all trees suppressing the oaks. 



This particular project was around a house so aesthetics were important to the landowner as well. After marketing the timber to maximize the profit for the landowner, we started cutting the trees, both mechanically with a feller buncher and by hand with a chainsaw. We then removed the trees, being particularly careful not to damage the oak trees. Once the trees were removed and sent to the mill, we made several small piles of brush underneath the tree canopy that could be burned by the landowner.

Goracke’s had a 120 acres of timber in Veneta that they wanted to have a final harvest done on it. The property had very little roads on it and the ones that were there were overgrown and eroded. We layed out and designed over a mile of road system that optimized timber harvesting. We hired and oversaw a road construction contractor during the summer to build and rock the entire road system to set it up for a winter time final harvest to capitalize on the best timber prices. During that summer of road construction we came in after the road was completed and harvested and shipped all of the timber that was cut for road construction and also harvested a small piece that was relatively steep that would be hard to access without tearing up the ground during the winter. That winter we logged the rest of the property and timed it to where there was enough of a price increase from the summer prices to pay for the entire road construction and rocking.

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